Turn My World Upside Down: Jo's Story by Maureen Child

Author:Maureen Child [Child, Maureen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 2007-03-31T22:00:00+00:00

Jack lay on his bed, staring up at the ceiling. Moonlight speared through the open curtains and lay in silver strokes across the whitewashed beams. Bear’s big head on his leg felt like a comforting blanket, and he stroked the dog while his mind wandered.

It wasn’t too bad here, he thought. Nana liked him and Jo was turning out to be pretty nice. Cash was great and now Jack was on the baseball team. So that was good and stuff, but there was still something that tickled his stomach and sort of made him nervous.

Papa was coming home.

He loved his father, but right now everything was good, and once Papa got back, things would be different. He wouldn’t see Cash so much and Jo would go away, back to her own house. And, he realized, he would miss her. She didn’t talk to him like he was just a little kid. And she was fun, too, and knew lots of stuff.

“But maybe,” he said softly, and the big retriever lifted his head and perked his ears as if he were listening to the boy. Jack grinned. “Maybe tonight they’re gonna kiss and get all mushy together and then I can show Jo and Cash that it’d be good to have me around and then maybe they could get married or something and then I could live with them. What d’ya think, Bear?”

The big dog snorted, laid his head back down, and closed his eyes. Jack ran his head over the dog’s smooth head and smiled. Didn’t really matter what Bear thought, he told himself.

It was a good plan.

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